21st in SEOUL - Day 3

   Day 3
♥ Namdaemun Market
♥ Namsangol Hanok Village
♥ Naksan Park

Another wonderful day in Seoul , like usual we took subway to Namdaemun market which just 2 stations away from Chungmuro station.

And tadaaaa ! Namdaemun Market~

Basically we didn't spent much time in Namdaemun market , there typically like a normal market and separated into few part like kids , women , man and so on. And I'm not really into the stuffs there so after a rough visit we move on to Namsangol Hanok Village.

 Nam-san-geol-han-eok-ma-eul

After walked around the hanok village, we bumped into this (Seo-eul-nam-san-guk-ak-dang) for tea-time chilling! Its inside the Namsan hanok village.

 

The interior design looks like this.

 

 I love this place so so SO MUCH! It was so chilling and relaxing ~ the environment is so clean and peaceful ♥ we order korean rice wine and red ginseng tea (but the tea not red in color thou)

I used to think the rice wine will be taste bitter since its an alcohol like thingy but I'm wrong, it taste sweet and damn nice!

After spent hours chilling at Namsangol Hanok Village , we headed to the Naksan Park. We took bus to there, it was a hard time for us to look for the right bus to reach there since it was our first time taking bus in Seoul. Kept asked people around and finally we got on the bus.

The feeling getting on their city bus was damn awesome! There was no any other foreigner (except us) and all people surround are korean people (kids that just end class, adults that just finished work, mom with baby, dating couple). It makes me feel like I'm experiencing one of their daily activities in Seoul.

We reached Naksan Park after 10-15minutes of journey, it was a short one.  Naksan park is placed within the housing area. Its a really beautiful park for the neighborhood to chill (they used to exercise there) and its quite a huge place , I didn't really see any foreigner at the park on that day.

 We walked into the deeper housing area at the Naksan Park to see the wall of arts.

 

We took bus to go back to the subway station after that and had our dinner at Dongdaemun. Another challenge came, the menu is all written in hangul and I need to order meat for bbq ..phiewww ..I was stunt at the moment, then took a few minutes to read properly those meat with sauce name where I don't even understand the sauce name and all the staff don't speak English at all.But in the end still manage to order marinate beef meat. Trust me. It was the BEST KOREAN BBQ I EVER HAD IN MY LIFE.  Taste damnnnnnnn GOOD! I didnt manage to capture down the restaurant name :( but I remember it's located after the Dongdaemun station Exit 1. Same row with a sport shoes shop (Nike , if not mistaken).

 That's all for day 3. 

Another well day spent :)

21st in SEOUL - Day 1

안녕하세요 :)

Finally I manage to update my blog on SEOUL TRIP!! Just started my Degree life in May and it's crazy, everything got so much harder and complicated compare to my Diploma life. Gotta adapt to the stressful degree life :( Alright, forget about all the stress and back to the topic which I've been waited months to talk about :D

It was my first time travel with Air Asia airline. I got scare off when my friends told me that 7hours + of flight in Air Asia flight would be very suffering and so on BUT actually it's not really as bad as my friends described. It's quite comfortable and I did had a good nap too. The only thing that I dislike about Air Asia is the airport, since it was my first time been there and so as compared to KLIA, I was shocked to see the environment. Luckily now they have changed LCCT into KLIA II *big clap*

 

 Our flight was in 8am and we reached Incheon airport around 3pm and the moment we stepped out from the airport was awesome ! The weather was like in Genting Highland. Then we headed to purchase our bus ticket to Chungmuro (nearby our guesthouse), and wait for the bus right in front of the entrance of the airport.

All the way heading to the city is so so so so beautiful, I cant describe by words..the road is so clean and flowers are everywhere. By the time we reached Chungmoro Station , we got lost for a while in looking for the guesthouse. I did follow the instructed ways to go to the guesthouse but still get confuse when reaching there BUT we were so damn lucky, an uncle came across offered to help us and I showed him the instructed ways.He don't really understand how to go BUT he still insist to lead us the way and helped us to call the person in charge of the guesthouse to pick us up! How kind the uncle was huh ???! I really felt so grateful to met such kind person. With the help of the uncle , we reached our guesthouse safe and sound, it was actually 15 min walks away from Chungmuro station.

 

After settled down everything, we headed out to ITAEWON for dinner !The weather turns colder at night.

This picture taken while on our way walking to the subway.

We had no idea what to eat for dinner so we simply choose this place to settle our dinner just because it looks so local. The place call 명동칼국수 ( Myeongdong Kalguksu), kalguksu is korean handmade knife-cut noodle that served in a large bowl. When we first enter the shop, there was no foreigner, no single English words on the wall or menu and the owner and staffs don't speak English. Well, challenge come and I need to communicate with them in Korean language. Luckily still able to order what we wanted to. And so that's our first meal in Seoul.

We ordered Kalguksu, Seafood pancake, Bibimbab and Mandul (dumpling).

After the meal , we walked around to admire night view of Itaewon, the night was so peaceful and quiet due to the Sewol incident. 

So that's the sum up of my first day post in Seoul :)))